More- Boycott Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterLegal Definition of boycott : to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a store, business, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions — see also primary boycott, secondary boycott
- Boycott Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comboycott / ( ˈbɔɪkɒt) / verb (tr) to refuse to have dealings with (a person, organization, etc) or refuse to buy (a product) as a protest or means of coercionto boycott foreign produce noun an instance or the use of boycotting Word Origin for boycott
- Boycott - definition of boycott by The Free Dictionaryboycott ( ˈbɔɪkɒt) vb ( tr) to refuse to have dealings with (a person, organization, etc) or refuse to buy (a product) as a protest or means of coercion: to boycott foreign produce. n an instance or the use of boycotting
- Boycott - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.comTo boycott means to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest; the noun boycott is the protest itself. This noun comes from the name of Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent in 19th-century Ireland who refused to reduce rents for his tenant farmers.
- The Fascinating Origins of the Word "Boycott" - The Fact SiteDuring the Irish “Land War” of the late 1800s, a British Captain by the name of Charles Boycott was the land agent of an absentee landlord called Lord Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. In 1880, after a year of bad harvests, Lord Erne – thinking himself a generous man – offered his tenants a 10% reduction in their rents.
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